Aqueduct Entries Thursday (2024)

FAQs

Why is Aqueduct Racetrack closed? ›

In December 2022 the NYRA formally announced its intention to upgrade the facilities at nearby Belmont Park to make it suitable to host year-round thoroughbred racing and training, which would ultimately lead to the closure of Aqueduct Racetrack, sometime in late 2026.

Due to the ongoing construction of the new Belmont Park, the fall meet will once again be conducted at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Main Track: One One Eight Mile Oval, length of stretch 1,115 ft. Inner Dirt(Winter): One Mile Oval. Turf: Seven Furlong Oval.

With Empire City and Jamaica both closed in the late 1950s, the New York City area had just Aqueduct and Belmont Park, so shutting the latter permanently would hurt racing in the area. Instead, NYRA opted to raze and then rebuild Belmont Park and temporarily moved the track's races, including its stakes, to Aqueduct.

Nazareth Speedway is a defunct auto racing facility in Lower Nazareth Township in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, which operated from 1910 to 2004. The racing facility operated in two distinct course configurations. In its early years, it was a dirt twin oval layout.

The winners of the first two Triple Crown races, Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and Preakness winner Seize the Grey, are in the 10-horse Belmont field, though the favorite is the Wayne Lukas-trained horse Sierra Leone.

Ten horses are scheduled to take part in the Belmont Stakes: Seize The Grey. Resilience.

Operated by the Queens County Jockey Club, Aqueduct was named for its location: a property in South Ozone Park, Queens on which a conduit belonging to the Brooklyn Water Works delivered water to New York City from the vast Hempstead Plain.

Why is the 2024 Belmont at Saratoga? ›

Why the 2024 Belmont Stakes was moved. In December 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the 2024 Belmont Stakes would be at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, some three hours north of Belmont Park because the racetrack was undergoing a major renovation.

Kathy Hochul's unexpected 11th-hour decision to halt congestion pricing. Belmont Park is a demolition site. That's why the Belmont Stakes will not take place there on Saturday. The race was moved to Saratoga, while Belmont gets a $455 million makeover.

California Aqueduct Overview

Varying in bottom width from 12 feet to 85 feet and an average of 30 feet deep, the concrete channel Aqueduct uses check structures with an innovative “controlled volume flow” system to move water through an open canal much as a pipeline would.

Aqueduct Racetrack is one of 3 properties owned by New York Racing Association. The following ownership information is a subset of that available in the Gaming Business Directory published by Casino City Press. For more information about Gaming Business Directory products visit www.CasinoCityPress.com.

Fans are encouraged to map out the best way to get to Aqueduct before beginning their journey. If taking public transit, please check the latest schedules to ensure the quickest arrival. Take the A train (Far Rockaway line) to the Aqueduct/North Conduit Av station.

Over time, ACRC could not operate profitably as attendance and handle dropped off year by year. Track owner Bob Levy announced the facility would hold a final abbreviated race meet in 1998, then close, presumably at the end of that year.

Once again, NASCAR has transformed the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of two Olympics, two Super Bowls, one World Series, the Rolling Stones and the pope, into a short track.

Garden State Park never re-acquired its glamorous past. Over sixteen years, the track suffered from the apathy of New Jersey horsem*n and New Jersey state officials, and unrestrained competition from the Atlantic City casinos.

Racetrack Closure

(CDI) announced that it would consider options to transfer racing away from Arlington Park after 2021. The announcement stemmed from the enactment of the Illinois Gaming Act, which provided for the legalization of sports betting and the construction of new casinos in Illinois.